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A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form ...
A play does not exist without an audience . Indeed the definition of a play is a piece of writing in dialogue devised to be spoken by actors and heard by an indefinite number of persons . A play written to be read in the study is a form ...
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When I say that plays are ephemeral , I am of course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own ... I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth .
When I say that plays are ephemeral , I am of course not speaking of plays in verse ; the greatest and noblest of the arts can lend its own ... I can think of no serious prose play that has survived the generation that gave it birth .
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Let no one think that commercial plays succeed because they are bad plays . ... But that this need not be the only merit of the commercial play is shown by those of Lope de Vega , Shakespeare and Molière . xxxviii If I have thus ...
Let no one think that commercial plays succeed because they are bad plays . ... But that this need not be the only merit of the commercial play is shown by those of Lope de Vega , Shakespeare and Molière . xxxviii If I have thus ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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